Corrupting Fever

Corrupting FeverSpell, Duration, Physical
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (78-520) Life
Cast Time: InstantRequires Level 16Draws out your own blood to power a buff for a duration, letting this skill inflict the Corrupting Blood debuff on enemies you hit, dealing physical damage over time for a short secondary duration. The buff's duration will be refreshed if you spend enough life before it expires.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent1% increased Skill Effect Duration0.5% reduced Life Cost1% chance to inflict an additional Corrupted Blood DebuffBase duration is 6.00 seconds
Deals (7.8–335.4) Base Physical Damage per second
Base secondary duration is 1 seconds
Buff Duration is refreshed after you spend a total of (26–205) LifePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.Acquisition
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Item class: Active Skill Gems

Corrupting Fever is a spell that grants a similarly-named buff. While the buff is active, hitting enemies will inflict stacks of Corrupting Blood on them that deal physical damage over time, up to a maximum of 10 stacks.

Skill functions and interactions

• Casting Corrupting Fever costs life instead of mana. Spending enough life while the Corrupting Fever buff is active will refresh its duration; the spent life threshold is much lower than the cost of Corrupting Fever itself.
• Inflicting a new stack of corrupting blood on a target will refresh the duration of all stacks currently on that target, as is common with all corrupting blood mechanics.
• Hits do not need to deal damage in order to inflict corrupting blood stacks.
• This spell does not interrupt your current action, allowing you to cast it during the animation of other attacks or spells.
  • Even after casting a spell, one can then use this spell and It will apply the debuff with the already used attack or spell, resulting In a very smooth added damage to any build rotation.

Gem level progression

Level			Life Cost	Physical DPS	Life Spent to Refresh	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	41	78	7.8	26	0	0
2	20	50	92	10.9	32	49725	49725
3	24	58	113	15.1	38	95714	145439
4	28	67	134	20.5	43	169595	315034
5	31	73	159	25.6	47	199345	514379
6	34	79	183	31.8	50	285815	800194
7	37	85	203	39.3	53	401344	1201538
8	40	92	222	48.4	56	554379	1755917
9	43	98	254	59.4	67	755049	2510966
10	46	104	284	72.7	77	1016533	3527499
11	49	111	310	88.7	89	1898602	5426101
12	52	117	332	107.9	101	1964019	7390120
13	55	123	385	131	117	2573731	9963851
14	58	130	398	158.7	133	4676439	14640290
15	60	134	407	180.1	144	3017327	17657617
16	62	138	425	204.2	155	7823001	25480618
17	64	142	441	231.4	169	15264208	40744826
18	66	146	508	262.1	185	26272845	67017671
19	68	151	515	296.6	201	62872274	129889945
20	70	155	520	335.4	205	212023122	341913067
21	72	N/A	585	379	210	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	653	428.1	226	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	726	483.2	239	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	802	545.2	252	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	881	614.8	262	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	963	692.9	270	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	1047	780.5	275	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	1134	878.9	290	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	1223	989.2	305	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	1312	1112.9	318	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	1351	1180.3	335	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	1388	1251.6	351	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	1427	1327.1	368	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	1463	1407	386	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	1500	1491.6	405	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	1534	1581.1	423	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	1570	1675.8	443	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	1601	1776.1	463	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	1633	1882.2	484	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	1662	1994.5	504	N/A	N/A

Item acquisition

Upgrade paths

This item can be acquired through the following upgrade paths or vendor recipes:

Amount	Ingredient	General Notes	Type
8	Dying AnguishDying Anguish8Level 19 Gem Alternative Quality: +19%Moribund, he gazed upon the journey taken as blood trickled down his chin. His eye closed on the city ahead that he would never call home.	random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality	Automatic
1	Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorAdds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing # monstersQuality GemRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.	random superior gem	Automatic
6	The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb	random level 20 gem	Automatic
13	The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.	random corrupted level 21 Spell gem	Automatic
3	Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Superior Gem Quality: +20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter	random superior gem with 20% quality	Automatic
1	The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.	random divination card set exchange	Automatic

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Corrupting Fever:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Corrupting Fever. No results found

Alternate skill effects

Corrupting Fever has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	(Undocumented in patch notes) Removed "Triggering this Skill still requires paying its Cost".
3.14.0	Introduced to the game.